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Into the Dream: Part I
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This two-part piece is my favorite ballad to date, mixing a fantastic blend of light pop, acoustic guitar, and moving piano. The second movement could be finished any day now.
jesse worley piano ballad
One guy with a full digital studio, 20 years of piano training, and way too much time on his hands.
I'm a workaholic when it comes to music, often taking on far more projects than a single human should endure. I start somewhere between ten and twenty pieces of music per week, though no more than a couple per month make it to a second round of writing. At any given moment I'm working on several pieces of music, with about one in three coming to completion and release. The rest are usually stored, as I find that elements of unreleased music often work in current undertakings. Given time, every note that I write finds its way into a released work. Composition for me is as much a part of my life as eating and sleeping. While I once believed I actually had a need to write music, I've learned otherwise over the last few years. I write music, quite simply, because it's there to be written. There is a constant score playing in my mind as I live my life, and my inspiration is drawn from that. Sometimes the music isn't worth listening to and I write very little, and sometimes the music is too powerful for me to sleep.
Song Info
Genre
World New Age
Charts
#1,825 in subgenre Peak #17
Charts
Peak #110
Author
Jesse Worley
Uploaded
September 13, 2002
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MP3 5.0 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I had been working diligently on another piece, when I felt the need to stray. After doling out hours and hours to Arabian themes, heavy-hitting percussion, and tiring progressions, sitting at my piano and playing this piece was a breath of fresh air. Many of the chord changes in this piece had been played before and were being saved for a song such as this. It took no more than a few hours to work out the entire piece on the piano, and the recording began immediately afterward. I laid down all of the piano live in no more than two hours, deciding that the slightly rough sound was perfect for the song. No post-production or editing was done to the piano once it was recorded. This song is remnant of White in many ways, as it is basically built around me sitting at my piano and trying to feel a moment. The additions of the various instruments heighten that feeling, creating a rather emotional piece overall. I'm not usually prone to writing this style of music though, focusing instead on louder, more obscure works. Every now and again however, I sit down at the piano and something like this comes forth. It's a feeling that can only be told by the piano, so rather than rant and rave on here I'll allow it to tell the story. I chose a light bass guitar for some simple depth, and a saxophone to fill some simple harmony in the piece. Strings are used ever so lightly to round out the guitar solo, which came to be as beautiful as I'd heard in my mind. The percussion was kept simple, but covered many variations to fit each individual section. The most notable moment in the piece was when I actually decided to take what was a beautiful piano solo and make it a duet with a guitar. The harmony in the lower piano registers made the song work for me on all levels, and I knew it had to be recorded. I tried to keep things simple, as I have a tendency to get complex in everything I write, and the results are, if I may say, absolutely beautiful.
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